Nintendo of America has announced a special Zelda-themed escape room, where you get to role-play the games for real.

Never mind virtual reality, Nintendo is planning a live action version of Zelda, named Defenders of the Triforce. The only problem is it’s currently only planned for America.

Escape rooms are still relatively scarce in the UK, but they’ve been a big thing for years in Asia and America. They’re very similar in concept to the Adventure Game and the Crystal Maze though, where teams of players are locked in a room and try to solve puzzles to escape.

Defenders of the Triforce doesn’t sound like it’s actually locking you in anywhere, but it will apparently be a ‘full hosted, story-based event’.

Which must surely mean that at some point, someone is going to end up wearing Link’s silly hat.

‘Participants work in teams of six to solve a mystery in a huge area, all within a set time limit. The experience will let guests interact with classic items and characters seen in The Legend of Zelda series like the Goron, Zora, and Kokiri tribes. Discovered items can be used to solve puzzles and move forward into other areas, just like in The Legend of Zelda games’, reads the official blurb.

The experience is going to be touring eight cities in the US, starting from January. They are, in order: San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Seattle, Phoenix, Houston, Chicago, New York.

If it’s that mobile then that hopefully means there’s some chance of it making a trip across the Atlantic, especially as the tour is heading West to East across the country.

The whole thing has been designed by SCRAP, who are well known for being one of the masters of the escape room concept. If you happen to be in American next year you can book your tickets at the unfortunately name website scrapzelda.com

The news follows recent rumours that Zelda: Breath Of The Wild on Wii U and Switch has been delayed until later in 2017, and will not be out in March as previously expected.